Baseball, which does this better than any major sport, is about to take another belly flop into the sewer.

More major-league players are likely to be taken down for steroids, in the wake of the arrests of Biogenesis kingpin Tony Bosch and nine others.

During the federal investigation that led to Tuesday's pre-dawn arrests - don't you love that dramatic touch? - more names of players were uncovered, men who allegedly got performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis. Those names probably will be revealed during court proceedings.

Let's pause here and wonder if baseball is the dumbest sport of all, or the unluckiest ... or simply the juicingest.

Baseball has to be dreading the upcoming unveiling of another set of cheaters. This time, instead of names trickling out over days and weeks, we're likely to see the whole list at once. Won't that be an exciting news day!

During the wait, players and teams and fans will be on pins and needles, though that's probably a bad analogy here. Let's just say there will be anxiety.

The Giants and A's have been burned and tainted, from the early days of PEDs to recent times. In 2012, A's pitcher Bartolo Colon and Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera were suspended.

So disgraceful was the fall for those two fellows that they almost immediately signed contracts with their new teams.

Sadly, most of the players implicated by Biogenesis revelations are Latin American. Biogenesis is based in South Florida, offseason home to many Latin players. The company's recruiters, or salesmen, or whatever you call them, had close ties to that community.

It's highly unlikely that only Latin American players juice. Almost surely there are many PED supermarkets like Biogenesis, with customers of all sizes and colors. Biogenesis got busted because of a couple of disgruntled people. How many similar labs continue to fly under MLB's radar?

And how good is that radar? Remember, most of the cheaters linked to Biogenesis did not flunk an MLB drug test.

I phoned Victor Conte on Tuesday to get his take on the new round of 'roid news. Conte was the kingpin of the BALCO scandals who, since serving an eight-month prison sentence a decade ago, has been working hard to help sports authorities detect PED use.

Conte mentioned that Bosch is facing much stiffer penalties ... thanks to Conte. Post-BALCO, the federal sentencing for conspiracy to distribute steroids was seriously beefed up, by a factor of five. However, Conte noted, though he took the full fall as the leader of his doping ring, Bosch might opt to deal with prosecutors and finger others in return for leniency. Indeed, that's what the early indications are.

Conte said his opinion of MLB's drug-detection program continues to be low. He thinks the program is a joke, on two levels:

One, Conte says offseason testing is essential. But although MLB can test up to 375 players every winter, he says closer to 50 are tested.

"If you have the right to test and you're serious about cleaning up the sport," Conte asked, "and you know when the fish are biting is during the offseason, and you have every right per the collective bargaining agreement to put your hook and line in the water when they're feeding and biting, why do you test only 50?"

Two, Conte says MLB still employs mostly a simple test that detects synthetic testosterone only a few hours after use, instead of more expensive carbon-isotope-ratio testing that detects juice for up to two weeks.

Conte said that last year's mass suspension of Biogenesis-related players probably scared other juicers into quitting - or at least being more careful.

"But do I believe that the use of PEDs in major-league baseball is still rampant? I do."

So do most fans, no doubt, especially with this week's news from South Florida.

Baseball should be embarrassed. Bud Selig believes the MLB drug program is working fine, but the facts seem to indicate otherwise. Maybe it's time for a commissioner who is serious about dealing with baseball's little problem.